Brewer's: Baguette d'Armide

(La) The sorcerer's wand. Armida is a sorceress in Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. Baguette is a rod or wand.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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